2.1                      Silent Installation via MSI

"ELCAD AUCOPLAN 7.12.0" provides options for installations without user interactions.  The Windows Installer installs MSI packages using the program msiexec.exe. This program can be started from the input windows with several installation parameters. To install a specific package, the following command line is used:

msiexec.exe /I <MSI package>

The Windows Installer can be specified so that a log file is created during the installation.

msiexec.exe /I <MSI package> /log "<Path log file>"

Using the following command line parameter values can also be transferred to an instance of the Windows installer:

msiexec.exe /I <MSI package> /log "<Path log file>" <Parameter name>=<Parameter value>

In order that the setup can be executed without user interactions, the Windows installer package has to be provided with parameters. The user interface of a Windows installer package is suppressed by the control character /q. This can be used as /qn to suppress all dialogs or ass /qb, to display a GUI without user interaction.

The "ELCAD AUCOPLAN 7.12.0" Setup-MSI supports these two options. To avoid that the PC has to be started after the installation, the parameter REBOOT=Suppress has to be specified in connection with /qn or /qb in quotation marks (Setup.msi „/qn REBOOT=Suppress“)

Example:

Complete installation with progress indicator: For an installation with a minimal user interface (only progress indicator), the entry for "ELCAD AUCOPLAN 7.12.0" on the target system is as follows (see below).

msiexec.exe /I "D:\ELCAD AUCOPLAN 7.12.0.msi" /log "c:\temp\ELCAD7120_Unattended_Client_Install.log" INSTALLDIR="C:\ ELCAD AUCOPLAN 7.12.0" /qb

By executing "D:\ELCAD AUCOPLAN 7.12.0.msi /?" you can get an overview on further parameters.